Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Prices in Southwest Texas are about as
follows: 50 30 to $3.50 FOR yearlings for
ranch delivery and S. to $40 for two
year-old steers.
: Mr.. r. f McAnulty, large cattle own
er of Shackleford county, Is in the city
and will invest considerably IN Fort
Worth property before returning home.
The wool and hide business is re-
ported very dull just now by local deal
! ears, operations having got down 10 that
| inc point that mark the close Of 8 season.
Canadian City, the new city in the Pan
handle, 10 which the Kansas Southern
viii shortly be completed, has every
prospect oi becoming an important ship
ping point for large scope Of country.
Mr.. William Rea is back from Wheeler
county, where ne went TO look sitter the
Oium-Zook bunch Of cattle, which be-
coming tied up in the legal complications
were turned over to walter Maddox, Of
this city, as receiver. He brings good
reports OF the range in that section.
The Capitol Syndicate COW ranch is the
admiration Of every r8uchm2n that has
been on il. 1t is uader the most admir-
able and systematic management Of Mr..
d. H. Campbell, who has got into the
good gracss Of every co~man dealing
with the syndicate. SO far this season
MIR. Campbell has bought about 1000
head CT cattle for MS company.
T. c. Hunt, ihs Jolly and popular
stockman OF Esstlaud county, is in town.
lie says that his section IS needing rain
badly, and that the corn crop viii be cut
short at least cce halt StOCkmen out
there are showing but little disposition 20
ship on the present market Mr.. Hunt is
JUS; back from The Yellow Houses IN
Hockey, where he delivered 5000 head Of
mixed cattle TO the capital syndicate.
It is asserted by one who Knows that
Texas feeders have il the past made
more clear nancy in listening
hogs than steers. That there is good
II neY in the hoS business, every msu
who has tried il viii assert with great
emphasis, yet somehow very few men ep-
pear 10 b. engaged in il. Tleirimmuaity
from cholera and other diseases, en-
almost absolute immunity in western
Texas, together with the ease ana nOmi- I
nal expense attached TO their raising
would seem to favor this industry. Your
Texas swine will rustic for living and !
keep il fSir order on grass cpd roots al I
summer, ana tnCn with s H.tlg corn in /.
fslI end winter, viii take on flesh |
surprisingly fast. me hog lay passed il .
She interest Of the farmers has been one /
OF the chief obstacles 10 restrict their
breeding, IS under It's provisions they .
nave no longer the freedom Ct the range /
Mr. Phillip II. Hale, writing from 81. /
Louis TO his paper, the Texas Live Stock I.
Journal, auCn. the much talked about I
trust, says. / do not think that the cat /.
tie trust scheme is given NJ, but l under !
stand that 10 further attempts will be |
made TO control the entire range interest. /
y trust com inatiUn may be able 10 con I
troll product winch is produced in OK
cess % the wants Cf the country, and /
which can be held in storage without F..
cost, but | also believe inst to unite .
the ranch cattle interest under one mau-
9gGmenu would be to render il en-
tireJy unmanage2Sle. 1t is now g ranch .
axiom that individuals can Tsise r
caltle cheaper than gigantic cattle
companies Governor O. A. Hadley OF /
New Mexico has gone over the subject ii /
q lengthy report 10 the International
Range Association, and his views are
fully in accord with those OF stOcsmeG
here, aud with views so often expressed .
by the Texas Live Stock Journal. 1
would advise stOckDCn 10 give the report
Of Governor HBdlsy more than usual con
sheraton.